Emergency! Need help with my kitchen cabinet knobs!
Sogol S
4 years ago
Hi everyone!
I recently renewed my kitchen appliances into black stainless steel. My kitchen counter tops are black granite. The cabinets along with my kitchen dining set are cognac brown color. My kitchen sink has an oil brushed bronze faucet.
I’m wondering if you can help me with ideas on what color/type of cabinet knobs should I get. Any ideas?
Any help is much appreciated. I have a gathering on Saturday and I’d love to have this situation sorted out. Right now the knobs are brushed nickel and very out dated.
Thank you!
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Rachel
4 years ago
M Miller
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (4)IMO- While I agree with 82mainstreet about painting cabinets white and not expresso, I also believe you won't be happy unless the color combo pleases you. - First, what do you want to accomplish? Are you intending to live in the home for a long time? Or are you painting for resale? - If you are painting for resale, then classic white for your cabinets is your best choice. It has wider appeal. A future owner will find it easier to change the wall color than the cabinets. - If you are planning to stay in the house, you can be more personal in your color choices. - But be wary of fads, especially when painting cabinets. It is much easier to paint walls. From your photo, it looks like your cabinets are nicely finished wood. Personally, I wouldn't change that unless they are damaged. I would just update the wall color, but that is just my opinion. If you do paint the cabinets, don't be swayed by fad colors. I would still recommend white or maybe a pale cream. That way, if you get tired of your color combo in the future, you only have to change the walls to update the room. - Unless you are changing your appliances and flooring, very dark cabinets will probably make your kitchen feel overwhelmingly dark and warm. - Consider your lighting and how you want your kitchen to feel. Does your kitchen feel too warm or too cool when your work in it? - White will give your room a light and airy feel especially if paired with cool blues and greens. If that seems to make the room feel too cold, white or cream can be warmed up with a bright wall color like apricot, lime green or turquoise. Try looking through magazines for color combos you like...or look inside your own closet for colors that make you feel good....See MoreWill knobs and pulls help me like my oak cabinets? What size?
Comments (30)I came across this post and just wanted to add that in our old house, we had the cheapest of cheap builder grade 80's oak cabinets that were a terrible shade of orangish. DH, like a lot of men, has an issue with painting "the wood!" "You'll never get the same finish!" Well, actually, yes you can as long as you use a good oil based paint. But anyway...so we comprimised and picked up some "Liquid Sandpaper" from Home Depot or Lowes (can't remember which). You put it on with a rag, wait a bit, and then you can apply a new stain--though it should be darker or brighter (cherry) to cover whats there. It works by opening up the surface and allows the stain to penetrate into the finish...then after 2 hours it "closes" back up and holds in the stain. It took us all of a night to do the entire kitchen. We took the doors off and all the hardware of course to get the best finish on the door fronts. Total cost...about 30.00 with plenty of leftover product. And we too had what looked like "wood paper" on the sides of the cabinets but it took the stain just as well as other areas. I believe thats because the stain doesn't actually get all the way down to the wood, but rather gets encased just under the top coat. But I'm not sure, because it certainly looked like the cabinets had always been the new color--the wood grain was apparent and the finish retained a beautiful shine after. I'm not saying its necessarily a permanent fix but the ease and inexpense created instant gratification. And in our new house when we remodeled the kitchen...it was off-white cabinets or else! :) They are just so timeless......See Morehelp with choosing knobs for kitchen cabinets
Comments (19)I think a lot of posters, myself included, read your description and thought ORB, but the pix changed minds! Your granite is really beautiful -- reminds me of sand dunes at the beach. The glaze you mention isn't showing up in pix (I'm not surprised -- my glaze doesn't either) but unless you choose a lot of darker accents, e.g. faucet and light fixtures, I'll vote with everyone else for brushed nickel. Polished nickel would look good, but not polished chrome -- you want the warmer tone, I think. Just in case you're interested in more radical ideas, here's four: amber glass (RH has one with an ORB base, although you can find others on the internet), which I think would be the best of all possible worlds -- feminine, harmonizes with your granite, out of the ordinary; frosted glass; copper; or brass, which is allegedly making a comeback and which would look nice with your granite. HTH....See MoreHelp! Non- kitchen emergency...Seagrass....Need advice
Comments (9)Air. Lots of air. Hang it where air can get at both sides if you can, or prop it up so that air can get underneath. There's no way to know if it'll stain because of the unknowns of what was in the water. Even if there isn't soap, there could be any number of invisible elements and chemicals it could have picked up along the way. If it's manageable, you could try rinsing the whole run well. That way there's an equal amount of wetting, and maybe rinse out whatever strays might color it, but it's not sure, and that much water could weaken the fibers. It's something you'll have to judge. If you're going to hang it, it'll help to support the bottom, and to put the least amount of weight as possible on the wet area. For a hall rug, that probably means hanging it sideways. If you have a gun style blow dryer, you can try that, working from both sides, but not so that any of the heat reaches the grass. The air is good, and you can warm it so that it's a little warmer than room temp, but actual heat can also weaken the fibers. Be patient. If there's a cloth backing, get that as dry as you can as fast as you can, and keep going back to it. It makes airing even more important. The last thing you want is to get mildew. Even when the surfaces seem dry, there will be damp between the grass and the backing, so it's really important to keep airing it, and blowing on it off and on, until it's dry all the way through. If all of the above sounds like more than you can handle, and if there isn't a cloth backing, you can try just putting a pile of towels under the wet area and changing them out as they get wet. And you can try the non-heating dryer from above....See More
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4 years ago
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4 years agoSister Sunnie
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4 years ago
PROJAN MOYER
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
4 years ago 
PROCentury Hardware
4 years agoHey Sogol S,
I would recommend something to match your appliances have you ever considered a Black Nickel? Century Hardware has a rather large variety of black nickel hardware you should check it out!
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